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The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism - A True Psychology of African American Students (Hardcover)
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The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism - A True Psychology of African American Students (Hardcover)
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Why do students who belong to racial minority groups-particularly
black students-fall short in school performance? This book provides
a comprehensive and critical examination of black identity and its
implications for black academic achievement and intellectualism. No
other group of students has been more studied, more misunderstood,
and more maligned than African American students. The racial gap
between White and African American students does exist: a
difference of roughly 20 percent in college graduation rates has
persisted for more than the past two decades; and since 1988, the
racial gap on the reading and mathematics sections of the
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has increased from 189 points to 201
points. What are the true sources of these differences? In this
book, psychology professor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Black Psychology Kevin Cokley, PhD, delves into and challenges the
dominant narrative regarding black student achievement by examining
the themes of black identity, the role of self-esteem, the hurdles
that result in academic difficulties, and the root sources of
academic motivation. He proposes a bold alternate narrative that
uses black identity as the theoretical framework to examine factors
in academic achievement and challenge the widely accepted notion of
black anti-intellectualism. This book will be valuable to all
educators, especially those at the high school through
undergraduate college/university level, as well as counselors
associated with academic and community institutions, social service
providers, policy makers, clergy and lay staff within the
faith-based community, and parents. Uses African American identity
as the framework to understand academic achievement and to expose
the biases of "deficit thinking" that presumes that
under-achievement among black students is related to deficiencies
in motivation, intelligence, culture, or socialization Presents
information and viewpoints informed by empirical research in a
manner that is accessible to general readers and non-specialists
Uses personal anecdotes and examples from popular culture to
connect with readers and better illustrate the validity of the
author's strengths-based approach rather than the conventional
deficit-based approach Challenges the idea that black students are
inherently anti-intellectual and do not value school as much as
their non-black peers
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